The Last Kiss (2002)

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Love the Hard Way

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Rating: NONE

Release Date: Jan 1, 2002

Running Time: 115 mins. (V)

Additional Notes: dialogue Italian

Country Of Origin: Italy

starring: Stefano Accorsi, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Stefania Sandrelli, Claudio Santamaria, Marco Cocci, Pierfrancesco Favino, Sabrina Impacciatore, Regina Orioli, Giorgio Pasotti, Daniela Piazza

director: Gabriele Muccino

Carlo's life is thrown into a tailspin when his longtime girlfriend Giulia announces she's pregnant. As Carlo faces up to his anxieties about adulthood, his buddies Paolo, Adriano and Alberto reluctantly grapple with their own responsibilities.

July 25, 2002

Think Sex and the City with men, only in Italian and with lots more hollering and hand gestures. Writer-director Gabriele Muccino's homegrown hit arrives in America with nothing lost in the translation. Carlo (Stefano Accorsi) and his buddies are past thirty but far from mature. Alberto (Marco Cocci) fucks whatever moves; Paolo (Claudio Santamaria) hates the idea of working; Adriano (Giorgio Pasotti) loves his wife but hates being married; and Carlo panics when his girlfriend, Giulia, vividly…